A mouth-watering cake with a touch of lemon, filled with lemon curd, and topped with lemon cream cheese frosting. It makes a beautiful cake for a birthday, spring shower, or for your Easter table and I love to serve it with a scoop of citrus sorbet with Meyer lemons.
Now, I have to share with you that this cake tastes so much better than my sad photography skills could possibly convey. For some reason yesterday, my camera and I just weren’t in sync. Not that we are much any other day, but it was at it’s worst yesterday.
But the cake, well, it’s a slice of summertime.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
- 1 lemon
- 2 cups lemon curd
- cream cheese frosting
Instructions
http://addapinch.com/cooking/2011/02/02/lemon-curd-cake-with-lemon-cream-cheese-frosting/
- Butter and flour two 9" round cake pans. Preheat oven to 350º.
- Cream butter until fluffy.
- Add sugar and cream until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time, creaming well after each.
- Add flour and baking powder alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with buttermilk.
- Add zest and juice of lemon to batter and combine well.
- Pour into pans and bake until golden brown.
- Remove from oven and place on cooling racks until fully cooled.
- Spread 3/4 of lemon curd between two layers of cake.
- Mix remaining lemon curd into cream cheese frosting. Decorate cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
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I want a slice:)
Where do you find lemon curd at the grocery??? Would LOVE to make this for a baby shower I am hosting in three weeks.
Hey Sharon, I make my own lemon curd but they do sell some delicious ones in stores. I’ll post the recipe for making lemon curd later this week for you.
I love all things lemon. This cake makes me smile. And don’t worry, Robyn. We all have days like that with those infernal machines.
Me too, Amber! I’ve been loving all things citrus lately. I think it must mean I’m ready for spring!!!
Yes, those machines drive me batty most days.
I absolutely LOVE lemon!!! I have Celiacs Disease, and have to have gluten free. However, you can believe I will be in the kitchen trying to test this with my gluten free mixes, so I can enjoy this treat!! Thanks for the recipe.
Oh Nikki, please let me know when you make it gluten free! I’d love to try making it that way sometime, too.
Mmm, I love lemon desserts! That citrus sorbet looks lovely too – yum!!
I just love a lemon cake! I can’t wait to try this one out!!
I am sooooooooooo ready for a spoonful of summertime!
Man oh man I could use a slice of summertime!!! It sounds absolutely wonderful… cant wait to make it!
I just love lemon curd! It’s a perfect flavor for the winter because it brightens things up a bit… I could use a slice of this cake right about now.
yes Robyn, that is a slice of summer and sunshine!!
Lemon curd, and lemon cream cheese frosting? Wow, this cake sounds amazing! I can never get enough lemon zing in my desserts and it sounds like this is full of it.
My mom is a lemon curd fanatic. She’d love this as her birthday cake, I’m sure!!
It makes a beautiful birthday cake. I actually made it for the University students here from Sweden for their birthdays. They LOVED it.
I love LOVE lemony desserts. And believe ya me – A few days back I was planning to make exactly this – A lemon curd cake with cream cheese, u must have read my mind.
I have had such a craving for lemon lately…it’s like you read my mind. The cream cheese frosting makes it just perfect!!
(no worries on the camera…I’ve had days like that too and I just want to cry)
Oh my gosh….that looks incredible! And why is it when I eat a dessert with lemon, I feel like I can eat MORE if it? I must make this!
I was lucky to receive some Meyer lemons from a friend who has a tree in her yard. That would be the ultimate addition to my landscape but our deep freezes in Colorado mean we don’t do citrus trees so it was a very special package for me.
I’ve made lemon bars and lemon dressing and just yesterday started a lemon meringue pie and now wish I just had a couple more cause I would make this cake. Oh heck…I’ll be finding a reason and opportunity soon; it sounds perfectly wonderful and a way to insert a bit of sunshine and spring into this cold tundra we have right now!
Looks great to me!
Oh my – you are super lucky to have a friend with a Meyer lemon tree. I asked my husband if he thought one would grow well for us. His look told me that I’d probably have it killed in no time flat.
I am going to make these into gluten free cupcakes for superbowl. OMG I simply love lemon curd more than anything. I’ve never made it myself so I am going to be looking for that recipe. I”ve made my kids love lemon curd too, especially with crepes!
Posting a recipe for lemon curd this week. It’s easier than it sounds.
You’re kidding me right? Why did I come over here today of all days? The day that I started my diet and there is nothing I want more than cake!!!
Ack! Sorry about that!
A slice of sunshine indeed! What a gorgeous cake, we are all lemon fans here so I’m totally going to keep this starred in my reader to have as a celebration cake for when I meet my next weight loss goal. It’s totally reasonable to celebrate loosing weight with cake, right…? Yes, I thought so:)))
This looks delicious! I have one question though….is the butter unsalted in the cake or salted. I don’t see salt in the recipe…..so salted butter??
Thanks so much!!
Hey Michelle,
I use salted butter for just about everything. LOL!